Ready to get knocked up and then knocked about? That’s the Chav-life.

The one on the left was a pederast.

What’s your problem now?

It’s mocking Trump and MAGA’s fantasy. For the workers it’s providing them with work that is unpleasant, poorly paid and painful. For the factory owners it is ending up with staff that just aren’t going to be productive.

As for toiling for a pittance: Trump is trying to devalue the dollar and erode workers rights in a race to the bottom. Apart from the fact that, as others here have pointed out, the endgame would be automation the intermediary stage is pushing those in precarity and poverty into jobs that don’t benefit them in any meaningful way.

But the Chinese, being somewhat keener students of human nature, have distilled those arguments into thirty seconds of comedy gold.

https://xcancel.com/timeforainews/status/1910626825371365660#m <— another one. Check out the size of the CPU’s.

Mate, there are so many things that suggest I am on the spectrum now that I have given up keeping track of them all. I’m not sure that at my time of life there’s anything that can be done for me even if I did get a diagnosis.

Yeah, if my memory is correct the flickers stopped completely for me at around 80hz. I’m talking about monitors here rather than TVs.

No, I have very poor hand eye co-ordination. Every time I have tried to play table tennis people have been on the floor laughing at how poor my reactions are. My eyes are just very sensitive to light.

I used to be able to tell what refresh rate they were set to because everything below a certain point flickered. I’d ask people why their screens were flickering and they couldn’t see it.

And in their desperation, they turned to a man no one could fully understand.

This seems like burning down your whole neighborhood to get back at the guy down the street.

Yeah. That’s what it is. That’s exactly why you’ve got Trump and I’m being entirely serious here.

Hurts the petit bourgeoisie, which is the only ones the working class see. Also, because Trump is a vengeful narcissist, you can bet that certain sections of the liberal elite are going to get a coating.

Edit: just finished writing this and happened across this meme which probably puts the case to you better than I could:

I can’t pretend that I know for a 100% sure that they will be. But the signs are not great. Also Tax Cuts for the Rich didn’t go all that well when Liz Truss tried it here in the UK.

I kind of think that we don’t have an argument here. Trump is obviously the worse of two choices. It’s just that the Democrat offering is not actually a good choice, just a less bad one. Unless you’re a member of the bourgeoisie.

I am going to have a moderate decline in living standards because I live in the UK. Where our supposedly centre-left government have just decided to cut benefit payments to the disabled rather than raise taxes.

I don’t understand the question.

If sane and competent gets you a decline in living standards year on year then it ain’t all that attractive.

The Democrats have constantly misread the situation very badly. For the typical voter, not the bourgeois liberals, not the MAGA brain-rotted dummies but the average poor working class voter the choice was:

• Vote Liberal Bourgeois and maybe things might tick along for another couple of years with the rich bourgeois liberals profiting off you and telling you how good you’ve got it

• Vote Trump, you’ll definitely be fucked but all the bourgeois liberals will be fucked as well.

I mean sanity suggests that the first offer meets the self-preservation criteria better but it’s not what you call an attractive offer, is it?

I also saw that while he was on his feet making himself visible, the committee that he normally chairs was digging into the same tech bros who put money in his pocket.

It’s no wonder that American voters didn’t want to vote for the Bourgeois Liberal Party, even though the alternative was literal Fascism.

OK let’s return to OPs original example. Mussolini strung up. Good job and all. I don’t particularly like talking about deserts because it’s a childish misunderstanding of the universe. Nobody deserves anything. They get what they get. Having said that, if you’re a Fascist dictator who uses violence and fear on your own population, you’re going to store up some resentment and if said resentment finds an opportunity and an outlet you can reasonably expect a bad outcome.

I would go one further than OP and say that if you materially aid and abet said Fascist dictator, as for example his girlfriend, you should reasonably expect to share that bad outcome and happily she did.

There were a great many partisans who took revenge on the fascists at the end of the war and this also should not have come as a surprise to them.

OP is using Mussolini as an object lesson here, to use the modern way of putting it: Fuck around and find out. Which Mussolini did and modern fascists may also expect to also.

The January 6th ‘protesters’ were pardoned but they also spent a deal of time in jail. They fucked around and they found out.

If the full weight of Trump’s Republic protects them they may feel emboldened but eventually the fascist regime always falls because they are economically illiterate, their inner circle fight like rats in a sack, they are incompetent and once the leader dies the whole collapses. And at that point fascists who have been doing fascist stuff should expect not clemency or mercy or any of the things they denied other people. They should expect to be upside down in a petrol station or something equally unpleasant.

It used to be that even the most unthinking and, frankly, racist people that I came across in work and the various places I used to drink would have been appalled to be lumped in with fascists and Nazis who were characterised as social misfits and considered beyond the pail. Everyone who was racist knew it was wrong. And now it has been normalised. If we’d been less tolerant of people presenting the racist arguments year after year and rather than trying to educate or reason with them had offered them violence or the credible threat thereof we’d be in a better position now. They’d have never reached the mainstream because they’d have been seen as losers still by the unthinking.

I’d say that it’s not about fascist appearing neighbours it’s about preventing the normalisation of fascism, like it’s just another mainstream political viewpoint.

I think what can be achieved is the splitting off of the unthinking mass who support curbs on immigration (in practical terms fascism can only do without immigration because it intends to institute some form of indentured or slave labour) from the hardcore fascists by making it clear that fascists are abhorrent.